It says here, that as a part of his wider plan to strip Americans
of our weapons in anticipation of doing whatever the hell he wants to
do with us (historically, it's usually been some variety of genocide),
faux President Barack Obama has put his head together with that of
the dictator of Mexico and several other Latin American satrapies in
an effortby treatyto outlaw the reloading of small arms
ammunition.

For those unfamiliar with the process, or who may not think it's a
big deal, allow me to explain. When you fire a modern handgun, rifle,
or shotgun, the firing pin of your weapon strikes a primer at the back
of the cartridgea tiny metal cup filled with material that ignites
when struck a sharp blowwhich causes gunpowder to burn, propelling
a bullet or a cluster of shot pellets down the barrel and toward the
target.

What you are left with afterward is an empty brass casing (brass
and paper in the instance of shotguns) you might think a shooter would
throw away. However in a rational world, shooters would be credited as
the firstor at least the most seriousrecyclers. Many of them
scour the range assiduously for their own and others' cartridge cases,
take those empty cases home, reshape them slightly, replace the dead
primers, fill them up with powder, and push a new bullet into the
casemouth.

Even though reloaded ammunition costs a fraction of the stuff that
comes from the factories, it's often of a higher quality than factory
ammunition. The most accurate ammunition in the worldfabricated
specially for a kind of competition known as "benchrest"is made by
hand.

Indians, by the way, were the first reloaders. The Army created an
"internally primed" variety of ammunition in a vain attempt to prevent
it. Americans shoot millions of rounds of reloaded ammunition every
year. Many of them wouldn't be able to afford to shoot if they didn't
reload.

I guess that's Obama's whole ideadisarm the poor first.

Add to this, various legislative attempts to confiscate existing
ammunition, to force manufacturers to produce serial-numbered bullets
(a nice trick with tiny .22s, of which Americans shoot two billion
rounds a year), and various lists going around the Internet of the
myriad kinds of guns that Obama and his slimy minions want to outlaw,
and you have a pretty good idea of the kind of fight we have before
us.

Just as left wing socialists don't give a rap whether gun laws
they advocate reduce crime or not, they don't care how impractical
such measures are, or how difficult they would be to comply with. The
spirit is that of Jim Crow (and only Nixon could go to China). The
object is to make living impossible for anybody who refuses to toe the
collectivist line. Their ultimate objective is nothing less than the
complete cultural genocide of the American Productive Class. We are to
be replaced by mindless, unquestioning high-tech industrial serfs just
like those we see in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolisonly their
owners won't be evil capitalists, they'll be authoritarian socialist
bureaucrats.

The Nomenklatura.

Now at the same time that Obama has exposed himself as a traitor,
for conspiring treasonously with foreign powers against the Second
Amendment rights of the American Productive Class, other leftist
lowlives in the House and Senate, led by Senator Jay Rockefeller (who
has loftily opined on several occasions that the Internet is the
greatest threat to the country's security and should never have been
permitted to exist) are attempting to rape the First Amendment, to
unlawfully abridge the freedom of speech and of the press, by handing
Obama the power to censor the Internet, or simply to shut it off
altogether.

Another bill would turn criticism of certain lifestyles into a
"hate crime", murdering religious freedom and free speech at the same
time.

And so it goes, on and on. Intoxicated with the power they imagine
the last election gave them, these murderous left wing socialists are
attempting to transform this country into a replica of Stalin's Russia
or Mao's China or Pol Pot's Cambodia as quickly as they can. Obama's
approval numbers are falling and the tea parties scared the bejesus
out of them. They know that their window of opportunity is already
closing.

Against them, all libertarians have as a bulwarkand a cream
cheese bulwark it isare the same right wing socialists who turned
the last eight years into a walking nightmare. They talk about freedom
glibly enough nowat the same time they rail against gay marriage
and abortionbut wait until they think they're safely back in
power.

What we need, then, is an idea that will protect and advance our
libertarian interests, while managing to appeal to the types of
individuals who are attending all of these tea parties across America,
andjust maybeeven to an increasing number of disaffected
Democrats. I believe that ideaa couple of them, in fact, but
that's a story for another daycan be found within the body of the
Constitution.

Article 1, Section 6: The Senators and Representatives
shall... in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of
the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance
at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to
and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in
either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

Traditionally, this paragraph has been used as a "Get Out of Jail
Free" card by politicians, establishing some degree of "legislative
immunity" for all sorts of criminal acts, especially against the
Constitution.

I don't recall how many people have brought it up whenever I've
proposed jailing politicians for their crimes. I'm not sure it was
ever intended to be used that way when it was written. (Although it
does have a certain Hamiltonian nastiness to it.) But, together with
the doctrine of Sovereign Immunity, which should never have arisen in
the new republic, and the dismayingly incumbent-safe election system
that has evolved, it places politicians beyond the reach of those they
harm.

If it had not been in place in 1913, neither the 16th Amendment
nor the Federal Reserve Act could have passed for fear of thousands of
lawsuits, and America would be a better, happier place today than it
is.

I therefore propose that we repeal Article 1, Section 6, excise it
from the Constitution like the malignant, self-serving growth it is.
We will compel office-holders everywhere to operate under exactly the
same constraints that we do, and to leave our liberties the hell
alone. If that isn't a reform program that should appeal to major
segments of the right, the left, and libertarians, I don't know what
is.

The effort can be organized just like a political partyat the
national, state, county, municipal, and precinct levelsexcept that
it can be active all year round, not just at election time. And what
we're advocating is the black-and-white repeal of a paragraph in the
Constitution. There's no wiggle-room for the weakest among us to
compromise. We won't find ourselves committed to a candidate who turns
out, as so many have, to be a moron or a jackass. We can all be equal
spokesmen.

And here's the best part. I've always been a great believer in
what might be termed "precautionary politics"letting the other guy
see the handwriting on the wall. Nothing has to get passed into law in
order for this idea to have an immediate impact. By nature, politicans
are cowards and compromisers. When they see this idea begin to gather
support, when they begin to hear about it every day, everywhere they
go, the weakest among them will attempt to appease and bargain with
us.

All we need for success is to avoid compromise. We must hold out
for everything we want. It will come in bits and pieces, but it will
come.

Now's the time to begin. Sign up right away. Fair Warning: you
will be asked to take the Zero Aggression Pledge. Accept whatever
level of responsibility you wish, national, state, county, municipal,
precinct.

Write to nrcc@ncc-1776.org?subject=NAIL ; let us know as soon as possible. I'm going to
call the effort NAILthe National Accountability Initiative for
Legislators. Somewhere along the line we'll create a spiffy logo. I'll
get the pledge and Bill of Repeal written and posted as quickly as I
can.

It's time to get free!

It's time to NAIL 'em!

Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has
been called one of the world's foremost authorities on the ethics
of self-defense. He is the author of 25 books, including The
American Zone, Forge of the Elders, Pallas, The Probability Broach,
Hope (with Aaron Zelman), and his collected articles and speeches,
Lever Action, all of which may be purchased through his website
"The Webley Page" at
lneilsmith.org.

Ceres, an exciting sequel to Neil's 1993 Ngu family novel
Pallas was recently completed and is presently looking for a
literary home.

Neil is presently working on Ares, the middle volume of the
epic Ngu Family Cycle, and on Roswell, Texas, with Rex F. "Baloo"
May.

The stunning 185-page full-color graphic-novelized version of The
Probability Broach, which features the art of Scott Bieser and was
published by BigHead Press
www.bigheadpress.com
has recently won a Special Prometheus Award. It may be had through the publisher, or at
www.Amazon.com.